In response to market demand, this book was developed to provide coverage of advanced tax topics. It is ideal for students who studied principles of taxation for business and investment planning in their introductory course. The tax consequences of many sophisticated business, financial, and personal wealth-planning transactions are explored. Each transaction is presented in an economic or legal context, and the non-tax motives of the transacting parties are examined before the tax issues are identified. The discussion of tax issues emphasises the development and implementation of strategies to make transactions as tax efficient as possible to all parties involved. Many of the tax strategies are analysed in terms of their impact on net cash flows and on the income statements and balance sheets of the transacting parties.